House Republican leaders remain open to requiring warrants before federal agencies can access troves of data that may contain the information of U.S. citizens, but believe the short-term extension of key surveillance authorities should come first, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told the Washington Examiner.

Like many of his current colleagues, the Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is a longtime critic of warrantless surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But pressure by the Trump administration to extend that surveillance authority has, in part, led him to support a short-term extension of the controversial spy powers, while maintaining that more reforms can be debated in the months ahead.